Publications

Saenger, R., Lenain, L., & Hodgkiss, W. S. (2024). Mid-frequency acoustic tracking of breaking waves. JASA Express Letters, 4(6), 066001. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0026149
Andriatis, A., Lenain, L., Alford, M. H., Winstead, N., & Geiman, J. (2024). Observations and Numerical Simulations of the Onset and Growth of Langmuir Circulations. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 54(8), 1737–1763. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-24-0004.1
Wagner, G. L., Pizzo, N., Lenain, L., & Veron, F. (2023). Transition to turbulence in wind-drift layers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 976, A8. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2023.920
Saenger, R., Lenain, L., & Hodgkiss, W. S. (2023). Mid-frequency acoustic localization of breaking waves. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(4), 2564–2571. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0021969
DeFilippis, J. P., Cornuelle, B. D., Lucas, A. J., Hodgkiss, W. S., Lenain, L., Kuperman, W. A., & Alford, M. H. (2023). Observations and simulations of caustic formation due to oceanographic fine structure. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(3), 1372–1388. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0020830
Freilich, M., Lenain, L., & Gille, S. T. (2023). Characterizing the Role of Non‐Linear Interactions in the Transition to Submesoscale Dynamics at a Dense Filament. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(15), e2023GL103745. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103745
Lenain, L., Smeltzer, B. K., Pizzo, N., Freilich, M., Colosi, L., Ellingsen, S. Å., Grare, L., Peyriere, H., & Statom, N. (2023). Airborne Remote Sensing of Upper‐Ocean and Surface Properties, Currents and Their Gradients From Meso to Submesoscales. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(8), e2022GL102468. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102468
Pizzo, N., Lenain, L., Rømcke, O., Ellingsen, S. Å., & Smeltzer, B. K. (2023). The role of Lagrangian drift in the geometry, kinematics and dynamics of surface waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 954, R4. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.1036
Colosi, L., Pizzo, N., Grare, L., Statom, N., & Lenain, L. (2023). Observations of Surface Gravity Wave Spectra from Moving Platforms. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 40(10), 1153–1169. https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-23-0022.1
Hodges, B. A., Grare, L., Greenwood, B., Matsuyoshi, K., Pizzo, N., Statom, N. M., Farrar, J. T., & Lenain, L. (2023). Evaluation of Ocean Currents Observed from Autonomous Surface Vehicles. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 40(10), 1121–1136. https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-23-0066.1
Vrećica, T., Pizzo, N., & Lenain, L. (2022). Airborne Observations of Shoaling and Breaking Internal Waves. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(21). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100622
Boas, A. B. V., Lenain, L., Cornuelle, B. D., Gille, S. T., & Mazloff, M. R. (2022). A broadband view of the sea surface height wavenumber spectrum. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gl096699
VreĆica, T., Pizzo, N., & Lenain, L. (2022). Observations of Strongly Modulated Surface Wave and Wave Breaking Statistics at a Submesoscale Front. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52(2), 289–304. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-21-0125.1
Sinnis, J. T., Grare, L., Lenain, L., & Pizzo, N. (2021). Laboratory studies of the role of bandwidth in surface transport and energy dissipation of deep-water breaking waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 927, A5. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.734
Haney, S. R., Simpson, A. J., McSweeney, J. M., Waterhouse, A. F., Haller, M. C., Lerczak, J. A., Barth, J. A., Lenain, L., Paloczy, A., Adams, K., & MacKinnon, J. A. (2021). Lifecycle of a submesoscale front birthed from a nearshore internal bore. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(11), 3477–3493. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-21-0062.1
Grare, L., Statom, N. M., Pizzo, N., & Lenain, L. (2021). Instrumented Wave Gliders for Air-Sea Interaction and Upper Ocean Research. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 664728. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.664728
Abdalla, S., Kolahchi, A. A., Ablain, M., Adusumilli, S., Bhowmick, S. A., Alou-Font, E., Amarouche, L., Andersen, O. B., Antich, H., Aouf, L., Arbic, B., Armitage, T., Arnault, S., Artana, C., Aulicino, G., Ayoub, N., Badulin, S., Baker, S., Banks, C., … Zlotnicki, V. (2021). Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress. Advances in Space Research, 68(2), 319–363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2021.01.022
Lenain, L., & Pizzo, N. (2021). Modulation of surface gravity waves by internal waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0302.1
Kumar, N., Lerczak, J. A., Xu, T. T., Waterhouse, A. F., Thomson, J., Terrill, E. J., Swann, C., Suanda, S. H., Spydell, M. S., Smit, P. B., Simpson, A., Romeiser, R., Pierce, S. D., de Paolo, T., Paloczy, A., O’Dea, A., Nyman, L., Moum, J. N., Moulton, M., … Ahn, S. (2021). The Inner-Shelf Dynamics Experiment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(5), E1033–E1063. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-19-0281.1
Pizzo, N., Murray, E., Smith, D. L., & Lenain, L. (2021). The role of bandwidth in setting the breaking slope threshold of deep-water focusing wave packets. Physics of Fluids, 33(11), 111706. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0072166
Lenain, L., & Pizzo, N. (2020). The Contribution of High-Frequency Wind-Generated Surface Waves to the Stokes Drift. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50(12), 3455–3465. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0116.1
Lenain, L., Statom, N. M., & Melville, W. K. (2019). Airborne measurements of surface wind and slope statistics over the ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49(11), 2799–2814. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-19-0098.1
Lenain, L., Pizzo, N., & Melville, W. K. (2019). Laboratory studies of Lagrangian transport by breaking surface waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 876. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2019.544
Grare, L., Lenain, L., & Melville, W. K. (2018). Vertical profiles of the wave-induced airflow above ocean surface waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 48(12), 2901–2922. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-18-0121.1
Young, A. P., Flick, R. E., Gallien, T. W., Giddings, S. N., Guza, R. T., Harvey, M., Lenain, L., Ludka, B. C., Melville, W. K., & O’Reilly, W. C. (2018). Southern California coastal response to the 2015–2016 El Niño. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 123(11), 3069–3083. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004771
Lenain, L., & Melville, W. K. (2017). Measurements of the Directional Spectrum across the Equilibrium Saturation Ranges of Wind-Generated Surface Waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 47(8), 2123–2138. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-17-0017.1
Deike, L., Lenain, L., & Melville, W. K. (2017). Air entrainment by breaking waves. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(8), 3779–3787. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl072883
Romero, L., Lenain, L., & Melville, W. K. (2017). Observations of surface wave-current interaction. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 47(3), 615–632. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-16-0108.1
Lenain, L., & Melville, W. K. (2017). Evidence of sea-state dependence of aerosol concentration in the marine atmospheric boundary layer. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 47(1), 69–84. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-16-0058.1
Bresnahan, P. J., Wirth, T., Martz, T. R., Andersson, A. J., Cyronak, T., D’Angelo, S., Pennise, J., Melville, W. K., Lenain, L., & Statom, N. (2016). A sensor package for mapping pH and oxygen from mobile platforms. Methods in Oceanography, 17, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mio.2016.04.004
Grare, L., Lenain, L., & Melville, W. K. (2016). The influence of wind direction on Campbell Scientific CSAT3 and Gill R3-50 sonic anemometer measurements. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 33(11), 2477–2497. https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-16-0055.1
Reineman, B. D., Lenain, L., & Melville, W. K. (2016). The use of ship-launched fixed-wing UAVs for measuring the marine atmospheric boundary layer and ocean surface processes. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 33(9), 2029–2052. https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-15-0019.1
Melville, W. K., Lenain, L., Cayan, D. R., Kahru, M., Kleissl, J. P., Linden, P. F., & Statom, N. M. (2016). The Modular Aerial Sensing System. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 33(6), 1169–1184. https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-15-0067.1
Lenain, L., & Melville, W. K. (2014). Autonomous surface vehicle measurements of the ocean’s response to Tropical Cyclone Freda. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 31(10), 2169–2190. https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-14-00012.1
Clark, D. B., Lenain, L., Feddersen, F., Boss, E., & Guza, R. T. (2014). Aerial imaging of fluorescent dye in the near shore. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 31(6), 1410–1421. https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-13-00230.1
Grare, L., Lenain, L., & Melville, W. K. (2013). Wave-coherent airflow and critical layers over ocean waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 43(10), 2156–2172.
Reineman, B. D., Lenain, L., Statom, N. M., & Melville, W. K. (2013). Development and testing of instrumentation for UAV-based flux measurements within terrestrial and marine atmospheric boundary layers. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 30(7), 1295–1319. https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-12-00176.1
Dickey, T., Banner, M. L., Bhandari, P., Boyd, T., Carvalho, L., Chang, G., Chao, Y., Czerski, H., Darecki, M., Dong, C., Farmer, D., Freeman, S., Gemmrich, J., Gernez, P., Hall-Patch, N., Holt, B., Jiang, S., Jones, C., Kattawar, G., … Zappa, C. J. (2012). Introduction to special section on Recent Advances in the Study of Optical Variability in the Near-Surface and Upper Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 117. https://doi.org/10.1029/2012jc007964
Huang, Z. C., Reineman, B. D., Lenain, L., Melville, W. K., & Middleton, J. H. (2012). Airborne lidar measurements of wave energy dissipation in a coral reef lagoon system. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 117. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011jc007203
Huang, Z. C., Lenain, L., Melville, W. K., Middleton, J. H., Reineman, B., Statom, N., & McCabe, R. M. (2012). Dissipation of wave energy and turbulence in a shallow coral reef lagoon. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 117. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011jc007202
Veron, F., Melville, W. K., & Lenain, L. (2011). The Effects of Small-Scale Turbulence on Air-Sea Heat Flux. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 41(1), 205–220. https://doi.org/10.1175/2010jpo4491.1
McCabe, R. M., Estrade, P., Middleton, J. H., Melville, W. K., Roughan, M., & Lenain, L. (2010). Temperature variability in a shallow, tidally isolated coral reef lagoon. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 115(C12), 2009JC006023. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JC006023
Reineman, B. D., Lenain, L., Castel, D., & Melville, W. K. (2009). A Portable Airborne Scanning Lidar System for Ocean and Coastal Applications. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 26(12), 2626–2641. https://doi.org/10.1175/2009jtecho703.1
Veron, F., Melville, W. K., & Lenain, L. (2009). Measurements of Ocean Surface Turbulence and Wave–Turbulence Interactions. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 39(9), 2310–2323. https://doi.org/10.1175/2009JPO4019.1
Drazen, D. A., Melville, W. K., & Lenain, L. (2008). Inertial scaling of dissipation in unsteady breaking waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 611, 307–332. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112008002826
Veron, F., Melville, W. K., & Lenain, L. (2008). Wave-coherent air-sea heat flux. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38(4), 788–802. https://doi.org/10.1175/2007jpo3682.1
Veron, F., Melville, W. K., & Lenain, L. (2008). Infrared techniques for measuring ocean surface processes. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 25(2), 307–326. https://doi.org/10.1175/2007jtech0524.1